Red Moscow

When Henrik took his parents through the Soviet defense line, he was in a state of high tension, afraid that a few patrol soldiers would appear from somewhere, and his family might be shot dead on the spot. What he was still worried about did not happen, but passed through the Soviet defense line smoothly and came near the German defense line.

Although there are still dangers ahead, Henrik has a pass issued by the German Army Command, and he can freely enter and exit the German defense area, so after entering this area, he immediately feels much more relaxed.

"Stop!" At this moment, there was a shout from the front: "Go any further, and I'll shoot!" Then there was the sound of pulling the bolt.

Hearing that the other party spoke German, Henrik felt very cordial in his heart, and he quickly shouted at the other party: "Don't shoot, I am an intelligence officer sent to the Russian defense zone, and I have a special pass issued by the headquarters. "

As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier wearing a steel helmet and white camouflage came out from the snowdrift next to him. He came to Henrik with a submachine gun and stretched out a hand to him: "Your Pass!"

Henrik didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly handed over the pass he had prepared. He knew that these German soldiers were unreasonable to the Poles, and they would beat or scold them if they didn't like it. Now that he was in such a sensitive area as the frontier, it was possible for the other party to directly shoot and kill him.

With the help of the flashlight, the soldier carefully checked Henrik's ID, and then shone the flashlight on the radio on his back: "What is that?"

"Radio." Henrik replied, "It's the radio station I use to communicate with the Intelligence Service."

The soldier nodded, and then shook the Jamon couple with a flashlight: "Who are they?"

"They are my parents, and they followed me to escape from the Russians this time."

Seeing that Henryk's answer was impeccable, the soldier returned the certificate to him, then waved his hand and said impatiently: "Hurry up, don't stay here, or you will have to bear the consequences yourself."

For Henrik, this place is almost like the gate of hell, and of course he is eager to leave as soon as possible. He took the documents handed to him by the soldiers, nodded and bowed his thanks, and took his parents into the German defense zone, heading for the nearest city.

At dawn, they came to the entrance of a city. After being checked again here, they entered the city.

After a night of running around, Jamon and his wife were tired and sleepy. "How much longer do we have to go?" asked Germon.

"Soon, soon," Henrik replied, "The end of this street is where my sister lives. You can live in her house first."

"What about you?"

"I have to send the information to the Germans first." Henrik said, "Otherwise we won't get the remaining 8,000 pounds."

When it came to 8,000 pounds, Jermon said with some annoyance: "Unfortunately, there are still 2,000 pounds taken away by that Russian, and I feel uncomfortable thinking about it. If we had said that we would give him the money in two days, maybe we could still get it." Two thousand pounds more."

Compared with Jemon, a greedy father, Henrik is obviously much more sober: "If we don't give the other party two thousand pounds, how can he easily give us the city defense map? Although we gave the other two thousand pounds, but The other 8,000 is a windfall for us."

Soon, the three of them stopped at the door of a house.

Henrik stepped forward and rang the doorbell. After waiting for a while, the door opened, and a young woman appeared at the door. When she saw Henrik outside the door, she couldn't help her eyes shining: "Henrik, when did you come back?"

"Dear sister." The young woman is Henrik's sister, and Henrik said with a smile: "I just came back, look who I brought!" He blocked the parents.

Seeing her parents appearing in front of her clearly, Henrik's sister showed a look of surprise on her face. She stepped forward to hug her mother and said excitedly, "Why did you appear here?"

"Henrik brought us here." Jamon said from the side: "In the next few days, we will live with you."

Hearing what Jamon said, Henrik's sister had a panicked expression on her face, and she looked nervously to both sides, as if she was looking for something. Henrik knew his sister well and knew what she was looking for, so he quickly said, "You don't need to look for him, he is already dead."

"Dead?!" Henryk's sister asked in shock, "How did he die?"

"You let your parents in first, and they will tell you the specific situation." Henrik said to his sister: "I have important things to do, so I won't accompany you."

Henrik left his sister's house and walked directly towards the intelligence office of the German army. He planned to send the information he had obtained directly to get the remaining rewards. As for how his parents explained the cause of Dobzharski's death to his sister, it was not something he should care about.

After arriving at the German intelligence department and showing his pass again, he successfully entered the building and found the German intelligence officer in charge of collecting intelligence.

Seeing Henrik's appearance, the intelligence officer was taken aback for a moment, then got up and pointed at him and said, "Aren't you the intelligence officer sent to the Russians two days ago?"

"Yes, sir. It's me." Henrik nodded and said, "I have obtained information from the Russians, and I have come back to report to you."

The intelligence officer let out an "oh" and asked casually, "Why are you alone, and Dobzharski, why didn't you come back with you?"

"Sir, he can't come back." Henrik tried his best to put on a heartbroken look: "When we were scouting the Russian defensive positions, unfortunately, he stepped on a landmine and was killed on the spot."

The intelligence officer still has a good impression of Dobzhansky. After all, this person has successfully completed the tasks he assigned many times. Now that he was killed by a Russian landmine, he still felt a little disappointed.

"Where is the information?" After sitting down again, the intelligence officer looked at Henrik and asked, "Have you brought it back?"

"Yes, sir, the information has been brought back." Henrik hastily took out the map in his arms, unfolded it and carefully placed it in front of the intelligence officer: "This is the defense map we bought from the Russians, please You have a look."

The intelligence officer looked down at the defense map, then raised his head and asked, "Is this defense map real?"

"Yes, sir, this map should be real." Henrik explained to the other party: "You see, this part is the defense zone of a certain Russian regiment. The deployment map of the regiment, and carefully verified, confirmed that the deployment map is true. After we got the map, we compared it specifically for this location, and found that the details were completely consistent, which shows that what we obtained is a A real defense map."

Hearing what Henrik said, the intelligence officer nodded slightly, and said, "Okay, Henrik, the defense map is temporarily placed with me, and I will report it to the commander as soon as possible."

Henrik saw that the intelligence officer was about to send him away, but he didn't mention the money at all, so he cautiously reminded the other party: "Sir, there are still 8,000 pounds, when will it be cashed?"

Seeing that Henrik actually asked him for money, a trace of anger flashed across the intelligence officer's face: "You go back first, I will hand over the deployment map to the commander, and if he is satisfied, I will hand over the rest of the money to you .Understand?"

The intelligence officer's obviously prevaricated tone made Henrik's heart cold. He was worried that after the intelligence officer took the defense map, the remaining 8,000 pounds would be wasted, so he quickly grabbed the defense map. The intelligence officer said: "Sir, at that time it was agreed that it would cost 10,000 pounds to buy this information, but now I only gave the other party 2,000 pounds, and there is still 8,000 pounds left. If you don't give it to me, I can't help it." Explain to the other party."

"Account to the other party?" Hearing what Henrik said, the intelligence officer sneered: "You have returned to our defense zone, what else do you need to explain to the Russians staying in the Russian defense line?"

Henrik saw that the intelligence officer obviously wanted to renege on his debts, so he wanted to argue with the other party, but the intelligence officer had already waved at him and said in a displeased tone: "Okay, there is nothing for you here, go out quickly."

From the intelligence officer's reaction, Henrik realized that the other party was planning to cross the river and tear down the bridge. He couldn't help but regretted it. If he had known that this person would renege on his debt, he should have stayed in the village with the information. In order to obtain this information, the Germans would definitely send someone to meet him with the remaining 8,000 pounds. In this way, I can wait for the money and then flee to the German-occupied area with my parents. With 8,000 pounds, if I can't stay here, I can find a way to escape to other places, and then go to England after the war is over.

When Henrik returned to his sister's house dejectedly, Jamon was impatient. As soon as he saw his son appearing, he asked urgently, "Have the information been sent up? When will the remaining 8,000 pounds be given to us?"

"The information has been sent up." Henrik said weakly, "but the Germans seem to want to renege on their debts and are unwilling to give us the promised 8,000 pounds."

"What, the Germans want to renege on their debts, how can they break their promises like this?" Jemon said angrily: "We risked our lives to bring them the information, but we didn't give us the promised money. No, I want Go to them to settle accounts. Son, where do you say the officer is, I'm going to find him."

Seeing Jamon angrily preparing to go to the intelligence officer to settle accounts, Henrik hurriedly pulled him away, who was afraid that his impulsiveness would bring disaster to himself. And Henrik's sister also said at the side: "The Germans have never had much credit at all, and they look down on us Poles. If you go to them like this, you may be shot to death by them."

The furious Jamon calmed down immediately when he heard what his daughter said. He fled to the German-occupied area so hard that he wanted to make money, but he couldn't just put his life on the line for nothing.

"If the Germans don't give us money, what should we do?" Jemon's wife said, "We escaped here. Although we brought some valuable things, how long can we last if we have no income and just sit and eat?" What time?"

Henrik's sister walked up to Henrik and asked him, "Henrik, is there nothing you can think of?"

Henrik lowered his head and said with some embarrassment: "If my brother-in-law is still there, there is still room for change. But now that my brother-in-law is gone, many Germans in charge of intelligence work are not interested in me. If I want to get With this amount of money, I think it is basically impossible.”

"Or, let's go back to the village." Jamon's wife said, "We only went out for one night, and we went back secretly. It shouldn't attract anyone's attention."

"No, we can't go back to the village." Unexpectedly, Jamon shook his head after hearing this, and replied firmly: "Unless the Germans fight back, we have no chance to go back at all. You know, even if there is no one in the village We found out that we had left, but the Russian second lieutenant will come to my house tomorrow night to ask for money, and if we don’t get the money, he will kill people and burn the house.”

"Didn't he be arrested?" Jemon's wife turned her head to look at Henrik who was sitting next to him in a daze, and continued: "When we left last night, didn't we send an anonymous letter to the Russians to report to them The second lieutenant colluded with the Germans. I think their commander should have arrested him after receiving the anonymous letter, and there is no risk for us to go back."

"Women really have long hair but short knowledge," Jamon heard his wife say this, and immediately lashed out at her: "Do you really think he's been arrested and we'll be fine when we go back? Every time he provides information, So if you dare to ask for such a high price, you must share some of it with other people. In other words, they are a gang, even if he is arrested, other people in their gang will continue to come to my house to ask us for the money Money, do you think we can come up with eight thousand pounds?"

Seeing that the money could not be received and the family could not return, Jamon's wife began to cry: "It's all your fault that you are too greedy. You insisted on coveting other people's 8,000 pounds, which made our family become what it is today. look."

Jamon, who was unable to get off the tiger, could only bite the bullet and say at this time: "Now that we have come to this point, we can only grit our teeth and persevere." After saying this scene, he told Henrik: "Henrik , if you are free tomorrow, go to the intelligence department to have a look, talk to the officer and ask him to give us 8,000 pounds. If he can’t give us 8,000 pounds, it’s okay to give 7,000 or 7,000 pounds.”

Seeing that things have come to this point, but his father is still thinking about the 8,000 pounds, Henrik can only smile bitterly and say: "Then I will try again tomorrow. But I don't know if it will work. If I provoke I killed the officer and was beaten to death by him, you must remember to help me collect the body."

The person who cared about Henrik the most was his sister. When she heard that she might be killed if she went to the German intelligence officer tomorrow, she was startled and said to him quickly: "Henrik, how about the money? Let’s forget it. Don’t put your life in it until you don’t get the money back in the end, it’s not worth it.”

But Jamon said relentlessly: "No, I have to try tomorrow. You have helped the Germans get so much information through your life and death, I don't think they will be ungrateful. If you go a few more times, the officer may be soft-hearted for a while. I will give you all the money owed to us, maybe."

"Okay." Henrik, who couldn't get the money and was unwilling, decided to take another risk when he heard what his father said. He nodded and said, "Then I will try again tomorrow to see the Germans Can you change your mind?"